Die Neue Zeitung

Die Neue Zeitung ("The New Times", abbreviated NZ) was a newspaper published in the American Occupation Zone of Germany after the Second World War.

Although the Division allowed German editors and journalists to write, it never gave up ultimate editorial control of the publication.

"[2] Die Neue Zeitung was considered a means of political re-education for the German population by its American publishers.

The feature section of the Berlin NZ – the so-called Feuilleton, covering literature, art, and culture – was under the direction of Friedrich Luft, long known for his theater reviews in the RIAS ("Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor", the radio and TV broadcasting service in the American Sector of Berlin).

Schwab-Felisch later worked at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and became editor of Merkur, Germany's leading intellectual review.

Masthead of a special edition of Die Neue Zeitung, Berlin Edition, 24 June 1948.
Masthead of a special edition of Die Neue Zeitung , Berlin Edition, 24 June 1948. The headline reads, "How Berlin Got the German Mark". Exchange of the old reichsmark for the new German mark in June 1948 was a vital step in the reform of Germany's postwar economy and set off the Soviet blockade of Berlin and the subsequent Berlin Airlift .